Y Combinator backs first nonprofit, Watsi

Y Combinator is really shaking things up with its current class of startups with the admission of its first nonprofit.

San Francisco-based Watsi helps the world's poor pay medical bills through small donations. Donors choose who they want to support after seeing profiles on Watsi's site and get updates on how treatment went later.

"We’re waking up at 6 A.M. to Skype with hospitals in Kenya and going to sleep at 2 A.M. dreaming of funding medical treatments for millions of patients in need.

"We’re putting every ounce of energy we have into this organization because we believe that every person in the world deserves access to basic medical care. We’ve already funded medical treatments for 60 people around the world, and we won’t stop until we reach a million."

"After about 30 seconds of looking at the site, I realized I was looking at one of the more revolutionary things I'd seen the Internet used for," Graham wrote. "Technology can now put a face on need. The people who need help around the world are individuals, not news photos, and when you see them as individuals it's hard to ignore them."